Kubuntu 10.04 How to create an icon on desktop?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Friday 20 August 2010, Michael wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 02:15 PM, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > Go to "Desktop activity settings" and change to activity type to
> > "Folder View" (or whatever the english version is). Then you'll
> > have a more classical desktop where you can create stuff like
> > application links.

This works fine in my KDE 4.5 PPA install.

> I no longer have that option.  Do you know how I get it back?  I
> have no idea what I changed.

You could try moving ~/.kde to some backup location (say ~/.kde.orig) 
and try again with a clean slate. I, too, have 4.5 installed and not 
nearly all the problems you describe.

  --Reinhold